Hollywood


Hollywood
Aliases:	Angel Arc ^[1]
Continent:	North America
Country:	United States of America
State:	Los Angeles County
City:	Los Angeles
Points of interest:	Mallet Studios; Plummer Park; Sunset Boulevard; West Hollywood

Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema. The nickname Tinseltown refers to the glittering, superficial nature of Hollywood and the movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production and lighting companies, remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.

Points of Interest[]

Mallet Studios: Mallet Studios was a film production studio in Hollywood, California. One of its directors was a mustached cigar-chomping man named McGruder, who was saddled with directing a horror film called The Fangs of Dracula! starring a washed up London stage actor named Louis Belski. Belski's co-star in the movie was an aspiring American actress named Liza Pyne. McGruder felt that the horror movie was destined to be a flop and canned it from American distribution, hoping that he might make a return overseas. Distraught, Belski drowned his sorrows in whiskey and contemplated leaving the studio. Behind the scenes, McGruder took his aggression out on the staff, physically abusing Liza Pyne. Belski entered the area and defended Liza by murdering McGruder before fleeing back to his room. There, the real Dracula appeared before him and admonished Belski for tarnishing his name and reputation with his disreputable portrayals of the Count onscreen. Afterward, Dracula turned Liza Pyne into a vampire. Belski disappeared soon after.

Plummer Park: Plummer Park is a public park located in West Hollywood. On the TV series Angel, Charles Gunn and Fred Burkle were staking out an area of the park while investigating an alleged philanderer named Jerry. They used the time to their advantage and began making out. They had to stop however, when their target went missing, only to learn that he had been abducted by a life-leeching tree demon. (Angel: Couplet)

Sunset Boulevard: Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a major thoroughfare in the cities of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood (including a portion known as the Sunset Strip), as well as several districts in Los Angeles.